Recently, artificial neural network (ANNs) has been adopted widely for solving many
complex problems in different fields due to its high performance and its ability to generalize …

A new class of biometrics based upon ear features was introduced for use in the
development of passive identification. This paper presents an efficient technique for …

Using ears in identifying people has been interesting at least 100 years. The researches still
discuss if the ears are unique or unique enough to be used as biometrics. Ear shape …

We describe in this paper the architecture of a modular neural network (MNN) for pattern
recognition. More recently, the study of modular neural network techniques theory has been …

Nowadays, support vector machines (SVMs) has been used broadly to solve numerous
mind boggling issues in various fields because of its capacity to sum up and classify …

Bovines identification has become widely used as essential for guarantee the safety of cattle
products and assists veterinary disease supervision and control. Texture feature extraction is …

With the evolution of information technology, our society is becoming more and more
electronically connected. Daily transactions between individuals or between individuals and …

Principal component analysis (PCA) has various important applications, especially in pattern
detection, such as face detection and recognition. In real-time applications, the response …

XML has become a defacto standard for data representation and exchange, XML data
processing becomes more and more important for server workloads like web servers and …

In the various domains ranging from the web to desktop applications, XML has become the
standard format for data representation and transfer. However, wide adoption of XML is …